This international conference is an opportunity for experienced researchers, young researchers and PhD students to share their scientific work in an interdisciplinary context and to take part in the debates over various approaches and case studies related to dialogic turn, participatory democracy, and the latest forms of citizen engagement and mobilization. Presentations based on empirical research and on sound theoretical approaches are invited for the 7th edition of Understanding Transition (Voices of the voiceless: New challenges of mobilization and citizen engagement) conference.